Why More People Means More Wealth with Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley

Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer.
In 2021 for example one widely publicized report argued The worlds rapidly growing population is consuming the planets natural resources at an alarming rate .
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the world currently needs 1.6 Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources .
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a figure that could rise to 2 planets by 2030.
But is that true?Todays guests Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley authors of the new book Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet analyzed the prices of hundreds of commodities goods and services spanning two centuries and found that resources becamenbspmorenbspabundant as the population grew.
The two sit down with Trevor to answer questions like how can we innovate enough to cover the resources needed for 8 billion people? How sustainable is our current mode of sustained innovation? And how is the total sum of atoms different than the sum total of knowledge?

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